Halloween WPs from DeviantArt
October 22, 2009 by Ginger
Filed under Digital Art
Finding myself with some free time tonight, I decided to put together a few of the newest wallpapers from DeviantArt, to make a holiday screensaver on my office PC. I simply save them to a new folder, and point the “My Pictures” screensaver setting in XP to that folder so that it cycles through whatever [...]
PhotoShop shortcuts make for easy work
September 22, 2009 by Ginger
Filed under Digital Art
After all the years I’ve been working with PhotoShop, I’m still learning the keyboard shortcuts. I’m always amazed at how many steps they can really save, and with my wrist being in a brace the last few days from working so much every click or mouse movement saved means less pain. A tutorial sent out [...]
Blast from the past
August 25, 2009 by Ginger
Filed under Digital Art
As I was conducting some SEO research today, I found an announcement of a digital art contest I won (placed) in several years ago. I got a kick out of seeing the Star Trek photo manipulation I did way back when I was still using PaintShopPro! LOL Yes. I know. But I’ll never be a [...]
IMVU
October 24, 2008 by Ginger
Filed under Digital Art
I’ve recently been enjoying my personal chat time over at IMVU. It’s a 3D chat that allows you to interact with friends in a whole new way! If you’ve seen programs like SecondLife, it’s similar, but not as “heavy” on your ram and graphics card. I’m developing content for the members there, and really having [...]
Digital art galleries are live
July 24, 2008 by Ginger
Filed under Digital Art, WordPress
After many hours of work installing the NextGEN gallery plugin, my digital art gallery is up and running. As it happens, the plugin itself is very easy to install and use, my trouble started when we suffered a power outage when I was in the middle of uploading the files. One file name “off” by one character, and the whole site crashes, go figure! *smirk*
New design and digital art site
July 24, 2008 by Ginger
Filed under Digital Art, Web Design, WordPress
Now that my personal blog is set up the way I wanted it, it’s time to get a site set up to focus on my design work and digital art. Of course, I will wind up posting about my WordPress adventures here as well. I have needed a mainstream site to present to design clients, so that will be the focus of this site.





